Questions tagged [diagrams]
{diagrams} is for general questions about vector graphics created programmatically inside a (La)TeX document. For questions about specific packages, use the appropriate tag, e.g. {tikz-pgf} or {pstricks}. For questions about inclusion of external graphic files, use {graphics} instead.
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Looking to draw this block diagram in Tikz
I'm looking to create something like this in Tikz environment. Any tips? help?
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Is There an Online Diagram Graphical Editor that Produces the Corresponding LaTeX Code?
Is there an online tool that generates the corresponding LaTeX code of a diagram which can be drawn using a graphical interface? A tool such as latexdraw but only using a web browser (like Detexify)?
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Generate analog clock with numbered face, add seconds, Roman numerals
Looking at the excellent answers here, I can't help wondering how I can accomplish two apparently simple modifications:
I wanted to be able to generate a traditional Roman-number clock;
It would be ...
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Node shapes in TikZ
I want to draw a block diagram for a software app and I need two shapes which I couldn't find on the Internet. The shapes are a parallelogram and a rectangle with double side margins.
One is for data ...
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Cisco Icons for network diagrams
First of all thanks for this great site. My foray to Latex has been easier than I thought. My company are producing technical documentations of as-built network projects from Structured Cabling to ...
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Is there an easy way to TeX geometric pictures?
Say I want to include geometry graphics such as the following in a document:
I don't merely want to import preexisting figures, I want to be able to draw my own corresponding to a solution I may ...
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Need recommendations for a drawing tool in LaTeX
I have never used a graphing tool in LaTeX but now I need to draw a picture. It is not very complicated: an xy-plane with axis; a number of points; a number of straight lines and finally two ...
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Wordle-like word clouds - can it be done without using an image?
I have seen the answer to this question:
Wordle-like word clouds
So yes it can be done by generating an image and inserting it, but that's kind of cheating. I'd like to be able to generate a word ...
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Grouping objects and applying operation to the group
Forgive me for my perhaps naive questions, I am beginning to discover Tikz potentials. To ease certain operations as moving objects or transforming them, I want to know if there is a mechanism in ...
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Drawing a complete ER Diagram in Crow's foot style by TikZ
I need to draw a ER digram in Crow's foot style in LaTeX. After some search I found:
Creating crow's foot style E-R diagrams, rather than Chen-style ones
However, I found this style was not "...
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Asymptote: draw surface from data points in 3D
In the figure below, you can see 25 curves. Each of these curves was plotted from a list of points in a file mypoints_i.dat. Each of these files contains the exact same number of points.
How would ...
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Which are the advantages of TikZ over GeoGebra?
Now I have been using GeoGebra for a considerable amount of time and therefore I am rather experienced using it. Creating graphs, plots and geometric figures can be done in a matter of minutes. Often ...
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Drawing a regular polygon encompassed by a circle
I would like to replicate the sort of diagrams shown below - a regular polygon in dashed lines encompassed by a solid lined unit circle with vectors going from the origin to each labelled vertex in an ...
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Any package for matrix diagram?
Do you know if there is any LaTeX package available to create charts like these?
(Source)
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callout and beamer
I am trying the callout code that Andrew has provided at How to open a temporary comics-like balloon in a beamer slide?, but I am getting an error:
Undefined control sequence. \pgf@sh@bg@ellipse ...
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Display Database Instance Relationship with TikZ
I'm trying to display all of my corporate database instances and their relationship to each other, so to speak the database links. I found the geometry shape cylinder using TikZ \usetikzlibrary{shapes....
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Block Diagrams Multi Input - Multi Output Components in TikZ
My problem is to define blocks (mainly rectangles) that has labels in them in terms of matrices (mostly block diagonal) such that the n-many arrows that goes in this rectangle visually is at the same ...
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How to get a 4 by 4 chessboard? Or any other size of board.
I've seen some package to draw chessboard on LaTeX such as skak and chessboard.
However, after reading the documentation, they don't seem to support a change of the board size. I'm talking about the ...
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How to create a modern-looking circular score counter using tikz?
How can I create a "score counter" like the one in the picture, so that I can set a maximum for any circle and add as much concentric circles (counters regarding the same thing) as I want? The ...
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Tikz: Avoiding line segments in snake path
I am using tikz to draw Feynman diagrams, and I learned how to draw a curved snake path.
The problem is that in general line segments are present (I'd like to avoid them).
I found a couple of post ...
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Block diagram with Tikz
It's the first time I'm using Tikz on Latex. I have to draw this block diagram (this is a low resolution snip from a paper)
In Tikz I have done this:
That is very similar but I need some adjustments,...
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Illustrating symmetric key distribution
Can I draw something like this programmatically with LaTeX?
I drew these with Adobe Illustrator, but it gets pretty time-consuming.
Even with relatively few nodes. What it attempts to demonstrate ...
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Putting labels on a cube with perspective
I'm trying to draw a cube where the faces are labeled with full perspective. I saw this question but I was looking for more perspective. Any help is greatly appreciated. Below is my attempt:
\...
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Plotting a piecewise function
I'm trying to learn to plot in latex, but I'm having a problem trying to find out which packages that are best to use in this situation, and I find it a bit of a learning curve.
Suppose you have the ...
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Is there a way to make "sunburst charts" (multi-level pie charts) in LaTeX?
Would like to make a "sunburst chart" such as this one in LaTeX:
I searched for Tikz examples and questions, but couldn't find anything fitting this description.
Is there a way to make these, using ...
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How to draw path with alternating colors
I want to draw a path where edges have alternating colors, like:
Ideally I want to use
\draw[red] (3,0)-- (3.5,0.5) -- (4,0.2) -- (4,-0.2) -- (3.5,-0.5) -- cycle;
But this can only specify a ...
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Creating triangle commutative diagram with tikz-cd [duplicate]
I've just started using TikZ and need to create a simple triangle commutative diagram like this one.
The closest I've been able to get is this.
How do I get the h arrow to go from A2 to A3? ...
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Drawing randomly ragged lines in technical drawings
I am having issues getting started on drawing a randomly ragged line, with finite variation, between two endpoints.
The random function which uses variable rnd I think can be used, for instance, ...
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How does one draw a momentum arrow along a line in feynmf?
When drawing a Feynman diagram, one often wants to label each line and draw the momentum arrows. How can one draw a satisfactory momentum arrow? Take for example electron-muon scattering, where I've ...
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How to draw vertical spiral using TiKZ?
I want to draw the following diagram :
I have tried to draw the diagram using the following command :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[dotted] (...
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Saving vertical space in tree diagram
I have many nodes on one tier. Thus I use the grow east option already. But this is not enough... I would like to save a bit more vertical space for instance through pulling two of the branches a ...
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Can I draw my graphs (graph theory) with TikZ online?
I have a problem, I'm a master student, and I'm writing my thesis (graph theory) in LaTeX.
Can anyone help me to find an online website to draw graphs and then insert the code in LaTeX online?
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Circuitikz Arrowhead
Code:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{float}
%\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}
\usepackage[american,siunitx]{circuitikz}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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How can I draw a chessboard missing two diagonally opposite corner squares?
How can I draw of a mutilated chessboard, i.e. missing two diagonally opposed corner squares? Using the chessboard package, I can only draw a full chessboard...
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Tikz for Gabriel and Auslander-Reiten quivers
In the context of representation theory, direct graphs —known there as quivers— appear all the time. Here are a few samples (from the book of Assem, Simson andSkowroński) First, a couple of gabriel ...
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Drawing a Neural Network architecture [duplicate]
I need to draw an image like this:
I saw this and this, but I could not modify it properly. Basically, I could not write the on the labels. Need your help.
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Draw a node as a square with TikZ
I googled but cannot find a solution. Is that possible to draw a node with TikZ which will be a square and NOT a rectangle of arbitrary proportions?
Minimum working example can be something like this:...
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Drawing the dragon curve
I'd like to draw the dragon curve (or paper-folding curve) in a programmatic way. For example, create a sequence representing the curves, and then parse the sequence to draw the curve.
The sequence ...
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Draw a coat of arms in LaTeX
Over at academia.sx we are trying to create a community ad to try and get us promoted out of beta. We are looking to create a university type coat of arms/seal. I have seen some really great artwork ...
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Molecular orbital diagrams in LaTeX?
This question led to a new package:
modiagram
I'm wondering if anyone has seen a package for drawing (qualitative) molecular orbital splitting diagrams in LaTeX? Or if there exist any packages that ...
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A circular table? (where the rows form concentric circles)
I would need to make a table where the rows consist of concentric circles. That is, row 1 is forms the innermost circle; row 2 the second circle; row 3 the third circle and so on. The columns would ...
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Draw a $\epsilon$ neighborhood
I would like how to draw a $ \epsilon $ neighborhood of a set with smooth boundary in "tikz".
\documentclass[tikz, border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Drawing the Trace Determinant Diagram on LaTeX
I wonder how beautiful it would be, if we could draw the trace determinant diagram with TikZ or any other package on LaTeX.
Image source
Edited: Here is my MWE:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
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Noisy, analogue waveform in TikZ
Is there an easy way of drawing a noisy waveform in TikZ? I know you can draw a simple sinusoid by repeatedly using cos and sin for every half-period, but doing that for a noisy waveform seems like a ...
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Plot to illustrate secant lines
I am trying for teaching purpose to explain how basically linear regression might work and how it could be extended. Since I am not the TeXpert I fear that my idea might be tricky and more difficult ...
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Waterfall Chart
For displaying the total effect of a series of values, a waterfall chart can be useful. For example this chart, taken from The Economist, illustrates estimated efficiency potentials in the UK public ...
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Drawing simple sequence diagram
I need to draw this kind of simple sequency diagram, but I'm not very good with TikZ:
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=2cm,auto,>=stealth']
\node[] (server) ...
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How to create dotted counter?
How can I create a "dotted counter" like the one in the picture.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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How do I draw parallel arrows in commutative diagrams with TikZ?
How do I draw two parallel arrows having the same domain and the same codomain in a commutative diagram with TikZ? For that matter, how do I draw any sort of parallel paths between two nodes? Do I ...
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Vertical spiral: from old fashioned to tikz
I'm trying to draw in tikz the following figure taken from an old book:
I tryed with standard spiral as suggested in How to draw vertical spiral using TiKZ? but the result is not satisfactory. Can you ...